February 26, 2007

What is a Classic? Quote of the Day #9

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

Italo Calvino in “Why Read the Classics?,” translated by Patrick Creagh. As quoted in Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits (Yale University Press, 2005), edited by Gary Westfahl, with a foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.